VICTOR LIRIO was recently in Tom Morris’s directing team for the critically acclaimed world premiere production of Dr Semmelweis at Bristol Old Vic starring Oscar winner Mark Rylance. Last fall, Victor directed the London premiere of Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter at The Turbine Theatre. Other UK theatre: Edward Allan Baker’s North of Providence and Dolores (live production broadcast, Bristol Old Vic At Home); Her Naked Skin (Circomedia, Bristol); Snow Queen (Redgrave Theatre, Bristol). New York theatre (selected): Cassandra Medley's Coming Up for Air starring Tonya Pinkins (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Warren Bodow’s Race Music (New York Times Critic's Choice); Cassandra Medley’s Noon Day Sun starring Ron Cephas Jones (Time Out New York Critic's Choice; Audelco Award nomination, Best Dramatic Production of the Year); Yussef El Guindi's Pilgrims Musa & Sheri in the New World. Regional: Long Season (Huntington Theatre, Boston); Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy (Miami Theater Center); Neil Labute’s The Mercy Seat (The SandBox Theatre). Concerts: Lea Salonga (Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Café Carlyle, PICC); Suites by Sondheim (Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center). Radio drama: Jenny Stephens’s Jefferson 37 (Christchurch Studios, Bristol); Cassandra Medley's Cell starring Condola Rashad (Playing on Air, NYC). He was founding artistic director of Diverse City Theater. As an actor, he trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He earned his MA in Drama Directing from Bristol Old Vic (Doris Dibden Prize). www.victorlirio.com